Wire-rope machine



(No Model.)

W. R. BEGKMANN.

WIRE ROPE MACHINE. l No. 440,859. Patented Nov. 18, 1890.

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VILLIAM R. BECKMANN, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

WIRE-ROPE MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 440,859, dated November 18, 1890.

Application filed February 25, 1890. Serial No. 341,711. (No model.) y

T0 a/ZZ whom t 71mg concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM Rb BECKMANN, of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tire-Rope Machines, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying draw ings, forming a part hereof.

My invention relates to an improvement in machines for twisting wires, cordage, or the like; and it consists in the novel construction, combination, and arrangement oi' devices hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of part of a rope-making machine having my improvements applied thereto, portions of the flier-carrier being broken away. Fig. 2 is acentral vertical cross-section thereof, parts being shown in elevation. Fig. 3 is a plan view of a portion of the improved Iller-carrier and other parts. Figs. 4, 5, and 6 are detail views of a roller and its mount ings used in making up the invention. Fig. f7 is a detail view in perspective of a hardcned-metal bearing-plate, also made use of in the invention.

1 indicates the llier, of which a suitable number are provided, with journals 2 at each end and mounted in bearings in two circular A spool 6, having a bore therethrough, is mounted on pin 7 in the flier, so as to reel olf the wire or cord as it is made use of.

I-Ieretofore the fliers have been made of ordinary soft iron or steel with holes for the pin 7 drilled directly through their side bars, and as no provision has been made for Wear caused by the heads of the spools abrading said side bars as the nut on one end of pin 7 was tightened up from time to time the consequence has been that the spool would soon wear into said side bars and in taking up the wear by'drawing in the side bars the journals of the flier have been thrown so badly out of alignment as to render the flier worthless and necessitate its replacement by a new one. For preventing such wear of the side bars of the iiier I have conceived the idea of placing a hardened-steel plate 8, having a central aperture 9 for passage of the spool-pin 7 and two threaded holes lO on opposite sides of said central aperture, which holes 10 are to be engaged by screws 1l, passing through the side bars of the hier from the outside,'the 55 plate being placed upon the inside of said flier with its central aperture in line with the pin-passages thereof.l In some cases I may dispense with these ordinary pin-passages in the frame-work of the flier, mounting the 6o spool solely in the central apertures of the hardened plates.

Heretofore flier-carriers have consisted of a main shaft, such as 5, which carried two circular plates or rings, such as 4, in which the fliers have been journaled in ordinary holes, which construction has necessitated the bodily removal and consequent loosening upon the shaft of at least one of such plates should such an accident happen to a single 7o flier as would necessite its removal for repair.

To permit the removal of any one of a series of fliers from a carrier without disturbing any of the others of the series is theobject of the construction now to be described..I r`

The plates 4 are usually made with v.radial openings 40 between spokes, and it is through these openings that the flier may be removed by the use of my invention. Bearing-boxes 25 are preferably cast integral with the plates 8o at intervals around the inner periphery of the same at the usual places of location of the old bearing-apertures, and in these the journals 2 of the fliers are adapted to revolve. Removable caps 25X, which are held in place 85 by bolts 26 and nuts 27, permit the ready removal of any liier without disturbing any other of the series carried by the carrier.

3l is a shoulder (or it may be a collar) on the lower journal of each of the fliers to sup- 9o port the Weight of the same.

I-Ieretofore, also, much destructive Wear has been occasioned in these machines by the cutting out of the bore of the hollow journal of the fliers by the abrasion of wire as it is reeled off the spools, also entailing the loss of the filer on this account alone.

l2 is the wire passing through bore 13, and as the pressure has always been applied in the same direction and at the same point only roe a short period of operation has been necessary to accomplish the cutting out of the bore to such a degree as to render the flier useless.

14 is a peripherally-grooved roller journaled in a bracket 15 at the inner terminal of the bore 13, so as to take the Wire as it is reeled off the flier-spool and guide it cenn trally into and through said bore Without contact with the latter. Said bracket 15 is provided with a flange 16, through which are passed screws 17, and by means of which it is secured to one end of the flier, so as to project the roller into the path of the outgoing Wire, said roller being thus located Within the iiier between the spool carried thereby and the hollow journal thereof. 18 is a similar roller journaled in an adjustable bracket-piece 19 at the outer terminal of the bore 13, which takes the pressure of the Wire after it issues from said bore.

2O is a bracket-piece, which is secured by a nut 21 to the upperone of the plates i-n which the hollow journals of the fiiers are mounted, aud its outer end is perforated and provided With a setscreW 23, the shank of the adjustable piece 19 being adj ustably located and held in the perforation in said piece 20. Itis evident, however thatI may make use of other forms of brackets in Which to mount the above-described rollers, the only essential thing being their point of location With respect to the bore of the hollow journals of the fliers, substantially as I have pointed out above, and for the purposes mentioned there.

30 is a hole in the bracket 15 for passage of the Wire.

The operation is as follows: The wire, in issuing from the iiiers, instead of abrading the bore thereof, will ride upon the rollers located in proximity thereto. When a flier 1. The combination, With the carrier-plates, of a revoluble flier-frame provided with journals having bearings in the said plates and having a bore through one of the said journals, a roller mounted upon the nier-frame to take wire direct from the spool carried by the latter and guide it into said bore, a bracket supported in proximity to the bore of the iierjournal, and a roller mounted upon the said bracket to take the Wire as it issues from the bore, substantially as set forth.

2. rlhe combination, with the supportingshaft, of the plates 4, having therein the openings 40, adapted to permit the insertion and removal of a flier-frame, the said plates being formed with fixed half-bearings at the outer sides of such openings, the dier-frame having journals fitted to such half-bearings, and the.cappieces removably secured to said halfbearings, substantially as described.

3. The combination of a revoluble flier having a bore through one of its journals and adapted to receive a spool mounted in said Iiier,with its journal extending transversely to theline of the journals of the fiier, a roller 14, mounted upon the flier to receive the Wire direct from said spool and guide it int-o said bore Without contact of said Wire and the iuterior of the bore, the nier-carrier, a bracket 19, located on said flier-carrier in proximity to said bore, and a roller 18, mounted upon said bracket to take the Wire as it issues from the bore, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereofl affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

WILLIAM R. BECKMANN.

Witnesses: 1

JNO. C. HrGDoN, E. E. I-IIGDoN. 

